Jessica Biel in Talks for Thor?

Published by Jeff Leins on: July 1st, 2009

An unnamed source sparked rumors today by dropping hints to Nuke the Fridge about Jessica Biel joining Marvel’s adaptation of Thor.  The “god of thunder” film is scheduled for May 2011 under the direction of Kenneth Branagh.

The scooper says Biel would play a love interest for the title character, who has been confirmed as Chris Hemsworth.  The site speculates on the female lead as Jane Foster, the nurse and girlfriend of Thor’s alter ego Donald Blake.  However, previous reports have suggested less of the alter ego story from the comics and more of the Norse deity struggle in Asgard with his adopted brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston).

The other logical choices would be Sif, an Asgardian warrior and the more likely choice for Thor’s love interest, or Amora the Enchantress, one of the villains the hammered hero regularly faces.  “The Enchantress” has also been known to team up with Loki.  Natalie Portman has also been rumored numerous times for the female lead, so either Biel is knocking her out of the picture or there will be some sort of sexy face-off right out of nerd fantasies.

In 2007, Biel turned down an opportunity to play Wonder Woman in the now shelved Justice League adaptation.

I have yet to see anything impressive about Biel’s actual acting ability.  Like Megan Fox and Jessica Alba, she’s all looks and very little talent.  Her last two movies ended up canceled and direct-to-DVD, so she might not be the sort of A-lister Marvel is looking for to put this on the map.  Of course, this could be totally bogus and the menfolk will go back to ogling Biel while the women stare at her boyfriend Justin Timberlake.  Just like old times.